Department of Health and Social Care

Care Workers: Conditions of Employment and Pay

Simon Jupp: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of setting national pay and conditions terms for social care workers.

Helen Whately: The Department has no current plans to make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of setting national pay and conditions terms for social care workers. Most care workers are employed by private sector providers who set their pay and terms and conditions, independent of central government.In the ‘Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care’ we announced our intention to launch a new Care Workforce Pathway for Adult Social Care, which will support development and provide a career structure to the workforce.

GP Practice Lists: Gender

Nick Fletcher: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2023 to question 4006 on GP Practice Lists: Gender, whether the NHS has made an assessment of the potential medical impact of allowing people to register with their GP as a person of the opposite sex.

Maria Caulfield: The National Health Service has not made a formal assessment of the medical impact allowing people to register or change their gender to that with which they identify at their general practice.When a transgender person changes their name and gender on their NHS record, they are issued with a new NHS number. As part of this process, the patients' previous medical records are copied across to their new NHS number, ensuring continuity of care. NHS England has advised that there should, therefore, be no medical impact of the changes made.